//------------------------------// // Chasing shadows // Story: 2 can also make 1 // by PieisGood4U //------------------------------// Author note(Sorry this is quite a big chunk of text): After spending a small time thinking (5 minutes of real thought rest being procrastination and school being in the way) I decided to change some things of the writing. I am leaving old chapters as they are and not editing them in anyway since it shows me how my progress was. They both keep my old mindset and the perspective i thought of writing in. My new idea is that now i will write something i think is fun to read. The other was pretty much writing for simply writings sake (didn't motivate much). Now I am going to see how to write this myself and try experimenting a bit. I may also add i am still writing on a Microsoft Text doc. Gdoc refuses to let me change language to english and i am currently away from the computer with Microsoft word. (I am also gonna give up writing it in a 2 hours session at 1am in the morning) I am also switching story teller perspective somewhat. It is now going to be somewhat a mix of 3rd pony, 1st pony and alternating between different ponies. It is clearly noticed who is being followed as i will say "xxx vision" on who might be seen from 1st perspective. Also if you do not like the story or find faults. Point them out in the commentary. By that i mean include a copy paste of the sentence it is in and mark it in red and then show me the correct word. Then i might feel like correcting it. Now I am going to stop ranting and continue with this story. Also the promised Summary in case you skipped the other chapters (Which i do not blame you for if you decided to do it): Previously on this story In the first moments we witnessed the ruler of the nights herself Princess Luna witness a shadow run into the Everfree forest near a house shaped like a tree stump. The following day Twilight walked around the village and received a challenge from Trixie on Nightmare night Then she spent a normal day in town and also read a book of magical theory. This book contained theories that letting one pony gather magic and another pony bending the magic for a spell to increase the spells power by many times the normal strength. Then after the day had passed Twilight went to bed and woke up in the middle of the night due to Noises coming from the library. ON WITH THE STORY _______________________________________________________________ Twilight vision As she started waking up from the sleep a bit more she saw very little of what was happening since the room was still dark. She made her way over to a nearby light switch and flicked it on. As she did this for a moment there was vision of the creature standing near the bookcases. It was a seemingly black looking pony like creature there looking through some books. She also noticed small glimmers from the books but she took this as illusions since she just woke up and they were gone the moment she lit. Very shortly after she lit the lighting the creature stared at her. Just as she was about to speak up to it, it started flying for some nearby open windows. Just as it exited the library she noticed that in its hooves was the very same book she had read earlier that day. As she tried to use her magic to grab the book the creature had gotten outside the window. He, She, THAT THING just stole one of the library books, I'd better chase it and get the book back. But I wonder why a pegasus would want a book on magic theory. As she too bolted outside to start chasing she came upon a thought. It is a pegasus and it has a head start. If I'm going to catch that thing I need some backup. I hope the rest of town will forgive me for ruining their beauty sleep for tonight. After that she charged a bit for the spell she was about to do. "SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Sounded a magically summoned horn. As most of the houses lit up she waited fairly shortly before a tired blue pegasus appeared in her face. "What was that for Twilight. You know it is Nightmare night soon and I need to be able to do my best jaw dropping stunts so I got to be in tiptop condition. And being awake in the middle of the night so I miss practice is not part of being in tip top condition." "Good for you then. You will get some practice right away." "What?" "Someone just stole one of the library books. The flew out of my window some moments ago and I want you to catch it and bring me back the book." "Oooh a chase. How exciting. I am already on it Twilight." were the blue pegasus final words 2as she flew away in the blink of an eye. _______________ Rainbow vision Rainbow dash flew higher in the sky to gain some altitude to easier spot things from a height. Oh this is going to be so awesome. I can see the headlights Rainbow Dash stops criminal. And how many can brag that they caught a real criminal. This might just be a stepping stone for me before I join the Wonderbolts. Okay enough fangirl for now. I have a criminal to catch. Wow it is hard to see things in the darkness. After a small while of starring in the night she noticed a small very hard to spot shadow in the distance which was running towards Fluttershy's house. "Gotcha" She exclaimed to nopony in particular as she quickly flew and landed in front of the shadow. "Hi there. Twilight would like to have her book back so we can do this the easy way which is that you give me the book now and come with me as we find a police station to report you to. Or we can do this the hard way which is you try to run and I will catch you." The shadow soon after started flying away. "Yes. Now it won't be so boring. Now to start the chase." As she flew she figured that it would be no fun in simply catching it right away so she made her speed just a little bit faster than the shadow and started chasing it. Several times she was very close to it and she was going to pretend to try and catch it and miss to let it gain some hope. After a while she had enough "Ok this has been fun but now prepare to be caught by the quickest flier in Equestria. It should be kind of an honor to be caught by me the amazing Rainbow Dash." The shadow looked to do a small shrug and accelerated a bit from its earlier speed. "Oh so you were not serious before either huh. Well two can play at that game" She said and speeded off after it. As she approached some speeds near the sonic rainboom she became a bit careful so she wouldn't become too quick and lose it since it was dark and could just hide in a shadow behind her. Just as she was getting within touching distance if the flying shadow she had time for some detail admiring. The shadow's color blended in incredibly well with the night sky and dark places on the ground. The only exception was the wings which looked sort of like the night sky bit a bit more of a brighter blue color. After taking some small notes on the appearance she was just about to grab it when suddenly the direction of the shadow did a one eighty and IT STARTED FLYING BACKWARD.(Note only the direction of travel changed. The pony is in same pose at it was when it flew forward) "What the hay" She quickly said as she once again flew after it. Due to its sudden shift in direction it had gained quite some distance between them. "You are only delaying the inevitable" Were the words she spoke just before she accelerated more and was catching up to it. But once again just as she was close to touching it, it decided to fly off into another random direction and do a perfect 90 degree turn as if it had been flying that direction all along. This chase continued for a while and finally Rainbow was getting tired. "ARGH. Enough of these shenanigans. I'm going to catch you if i so have to knock you out with a sonic rainboom." As she finished her sentence the shadow placed itself firmly in one place in the sky, making it look like it was standing on both its legs and held out it's hooves in preparations. "So you think you can take me on huh. BRING IT" Were the final words spoken by Rainbow as she backed a little to gain more space to build up speed. As she was closing in there was a weird sound every now and then "Crumble" And each one a little bit louder than before. "Crash" "Crash" "Craash" She noticed she was not able to accelerate enough for the sonic rainboom weirdly enough since something slowed her speed but she saw nothing behind her. But it would still be enough since the shadow just was there. Standing around relaxedly in the air waiting for its attacker still with the hooves out in preparation. As she got 2 meters away from the shadow all that could be heard was "DUNK" As she suddenly hit a direct stop and passed out and started falling.